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The Environmental Protection Agency will adopt new rules to limit toxic air pollution from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants by November 2011.

The TckTckTck campaign hopes to raise enough awareness–and gather enough signatures–to inspire real climate action at the Copenhagen climate talks in December.

A few years back, a newspaper monster wandered into a Halloween party at our house, caused a stir, and left without ever identifying himself.

For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revoke a permit it had issued for a West Virginia surface mine.

Cleaning up smokestacks may have an unintended environmental consequence—polluted water.

This Halloween, you can spare the landfill more plastic bags and make an environmental—and fashion—statement with these creative costume ideas.

Nothing spells cozy warmth quite like a crackling fire, but when that fire is wasting heat and releasing pollutants into the home and air, coziness is a poor trade-off.

The Chemical Abstract Service keeps an inventory of all the chemicals that have been invented or discovered. It just logged its 50 millionth chemical.